Spin-offs Fraunhofer ITWM

Over the past years, innovative spin-offs have emerged from Fraunhofer ITWM. These companies continue to develop future-oriented technologies as independent businesses.

Math2Market was spun-off in 2011 from the department of Flow and Material Simulation and is now the largest of the Fraunhofer ITWM spin-offs. The company is specialized in computer aided materials development with the virtual material lab GeoDict.

In January 2013, in addition to the distribution rights, Math2Market acquired all rights to the development of GeoDict from Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, in other words, besides software sales and consulting projects, now Math2Market can also perform customerspecific development of GeoDict. Technology based new development will continue to be addressed in close cooperation with Fraunhofer ITWM.

In September 2013, Math2Market received an award for its business plan from 1,2,3,Go. This prize is awarded by a consortium of companies in the greater Palatinate/Saarland, Lorraine, Luxembourg, and Belgium region to support innovative entrepreneurial ideas – Math2Market is one of ten winning start-ups.

In the meantime, the company has proven itself on the market, which is also evidenced by two further awards: in 2019, an M2M tool was awarded the Filtrex Innovation Award; in 2020, the Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz awarded M2M the »SUCCESS 2020: Vorsprung durch Innovation«. 

Further information on Math2Market and the cooperation with Fraunhofer ITWM

The start-up is a spin-off from the department of Mathematical Methods in Dynamics and Durability and mainly markets the IPS Cable Simulation software, which is developed in collaboration with the Fraunhofer-Chalmers Research Centre for Industrial Mathematics in Göteborg.

IPS Cable Simulation is a support tool used in both the automotive and commercial vehicle sectors as well as in the aerospace and mechanical engineering fields to insure the efficient installation of flexible components such as cables and hoses.

fleXstructures was honored with the Robotics Award 2017 and the Zukunftspreis Pfalz 2017.

Further information on fleXstructures and the cooperation with the Fraunhofer ITWM

Fraunhofer ITWM teamed with Norwegian oil and gas company StatOil Hydro to develop a software product for the evaluation of geophysical data that can be deployed in the oil industry. Sharp Reflections was established in 2009 as a spin-off from the Competence Center High Performance Computing for the purpose of marketing this software.

The great advantage of the Fraunhofer ITWM software compared to other products is its use of parallel computing systems in place of large scale mainframes as well as the high speed at which firms can interactively evaluate their own data.

A subsidiary, Sharp Reflections AS, serves customers and partners in Norway where, mainly, services like training and consulting are provided to customers in how to use the software and evaluate the geophysical data.

Further Information on Sharp Reflections and the cooperation with Fraunhofer ITWM

The most recent spin-off from  Fraunhofer ITWM, ThinkParQ, is mainly involved in the sale and support of BeeGFS, a parallel file system in which data is automatically distributed to multiple servers, which makes access much faster.

The aim of ThinkParQ is to extend the deployment of FhGFS to other fields, beyond (scientific) high performance computing, for example, to the media industry with the new high definition video formats, etc. where, of course, there is also a growing need for storage systems that can handle such amounts of data. The agreement which gives ThinkParQ exclusive distribution rights to BeeGFS, has been in effect since January 2014. The spin-off was founded in 2013.

Further information on ThinkParQ and the cooperation with Fraunhofer ITWM

The aim of the subsidized private pension plans is to provide financial security for the time following the active working years so that the customer is able to maintain their accustomed living standards. The Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft established the non-profit »Product Information Office for Retirement Provision« (PIA) in October 2015 on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) to perform a neutral evaluation of these pension products.

The PIA received a grant from BMF for five years – with an option for an additional five years – to perform the tasks of the pension plan information center. The Financial Mathematics department of Fraunhofer ITWM has extensive expertise in using financial mathematics and statistical methods to develop innovative products and processes for the financial sector and government authorities. 

To support PIA, the FM department conducts research, develops capital market models, and determines the opportunity-risk classes for the subsidized pension plan products offered. The institute developed a software called ALMSim, an Asset-Liability-Management (ALM) tool for this purpose. ALM is a risk management technique and, consequently, an important element of corporate management.

Further information on PIA and the cooperation with Fraunhofer ITWM

A new spin-off emerged from our institute in 2019: Wendeware AG makes software for managing the energy revolution ready for the market, administrates the marketing of the products and further develops the future-relevant technologies as an independent company. The group Green by IT at the Fraunhofer ITWM in Kaiserslautern is the development site of the technological ideas and products related to Wendeware. Since 2009, scientists here have been developing solutions that make the energy revolution simple and effective with meaningful control. This has resulted in the energy management system Amperix with the web platform myPowerGrid and the AI-based solar prediction PVCAST. The systems have already proven themselves in practice and reliably control energy flows in single-family homes as well as in industrial applications.

Further information about Wendeware and its collaboration with Fraunhofer ITWM

With the founding of UNEEC Systems GmbH in August 2023, a technology developed at Fraunhofer ITWM was transferred into an independent company. UNEEC Systems develops energy-efficient high-performance computers for demanding simulation and AI applications and further advances the STX technology (Stencil and Tensor Accelerator) for industrial applications.

The technological foundation is the STX technology developed at Fraunhofer ITWM, which combines hardware and software in a consistent co-design approach. UNEEC Systems’ goal is to provide powerful yet resource-efficient computing platforms based on European technologies. The company’s solutions support scientific and industrial applications where large amounts of data and complex simulations need to be processed efficiently.

Further information about UNEEC and its collaboration with Fraunhofer ITWM

Since July 1, 2025, LayerSense GmbH has been transferring terahertz technology from research into industrial applications. The company develops measurement systems for the precise inline determination of layer thicknesses on coated web materials. Particularly in battery production, the technology enables continuous quality control during ongoing manufacturing processes, thereby contributing to higher product quality, resource efficiency, and process reliability. The spin-off is based on the expertise in terahertz measurement technology and spectroscopy developed at Fraunhofer ITWM.

Further information about LayerSense and its collaboration with Fraunhofer ITWM.

Since the founding of the spin-off »Virtual Tire Technologies« in 2026, the technological strengths of CDTire have been further developed and commercialized for industrial applications.

CDTire is a highly accurate tire modeling and simulation software that realistically represents the physical behavior of tires under a wide range of operating conditions. As all forces and energy flows in vehicle simulation are transmitted through the tire, CDTire is used by most leading tire manufacturers and serves as a key foundation for virtual vehicle development.

The technology is applied in core disciplines such as ride comfort, vehicle dynamics, NVH (Noise, Vibration, and Harshness), durability, rolling resistance, tire wear, handling, and tire state changes, helping to make development processes more efficient and realistic.

More information about Virtual Tire Technologies and its collaboration with Fraunhofer ITWM.

With the founding of Medabsy in 2026, we successfully transferred our research in the field of virtual development of optical inspection systems into the market.

The Medabsy platform brings together the entire development workflow for automated surface inspection within a single software environment. It enables users to design virtual inspection systems, evaluate different camera and lighting concepts, and create photorealistic simulations of surfaces, textures, and defects. This allows inspection solutions to be optimized before any physical hardware is built.

A particular focus is the generation of synthetic image data for AI applications. Based on realistic texture and defect models, the platform automatically creates annotated datasets for training algorithms used in industrial quality inspection. As a result, companies can develop optical inspection systems up to ten times faster and efficiently implement AI-based inspection solutions.

More information about Medabsy and its collaboration with Fraunhofer ITWM